GP struck off after drugging and raping women he met on marriage website

Fake: Anil Tangotra created a false profile on an Asian marriage website and drugged and raped women he met

Medical chiefs yesterday ruled that a GP who posed as a wealthy banker on a dating website to find women to drug and rape should be struck off.

Anil Tangotra, 53, was branded a 'sexual predator' and jailed for 11 years after being convicted.

He had portrayed himself as a successful young bachelor working in the City to attract young women.

Hiding behind a pseudonym, he used chat-up lines and poetry on Shaadi.com, an Asian marriage site, to meet two women who were hoping to meet a potential husband.

But after wining and dining them, the doctor spiked their drinks and subjected them to brutal sex attacks.

Tangotra, who had a GP practice in Plaistow, East London, had denied rape and sex assault charges.

He insisted that any sexual contact between them had been instigated by the two women, a teacher and a mature student, but the jury rejected this.

Yesterday, a panel at the General Medical Council convened to consider if the GP was fit to practise before deciding that he should be taken off the medical register.

A spokesman said last night: 'The panel is aware of its responsibility to protect the public interest, in particular, to protect patients, to maintain confidence in the profession and to uphold proper standards of conduct and behaviour.

'The panel notes that Dr Tangotra's offences are serious. His convictions resulted from premeditated sexual attacks on two vulnerable women, whom he had groomed for this purpose.

'The panel believes that convictions of this nature undermine confidence in the medical profession.

'It has borne in mind that Dr Tangotra will be on the Sex Offenders Register for the rest of his life.

'In all the circumstances, the panel has no doubt that Dr Tangotra's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of his convictions.'

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At his trial, the court heard Tangotra, a separated father-of-two, had first struck in 2006.

He met the mature student online and took the woman back to his home in Ilford, Essex where he drugged and raped her. He was arrested and tried but faced a retrial after the jury was unable to decide if he was guilty.

While he was on bail, he returned to the online marriage website and arranged to meet a teacher before drugging and attempting to rape her.

Between bouts of unconsciousness, she realised Tangotra was trying to attack her and managed to fight him off and escape.

Giving evidence, one victim said: 'I was crying... screaming. I was devastated.

'I was absolutely ruined. I was treated like a call-girl... and left like a zombie.'

The second victim said: 'I remember walking around the room a bit and that is when I collapsed - then there was nothing.'

A sedative later found in her bloodstream matched a drug found at her attacker's home after his arrest. Sentencing Tangotra in February 2008, Judge William Kennedy said: 'You were engaged in caring for the public in general practice.

'You were also a sexual predator determined to have sexual intercourse with young Indian women by whatever seduction, trickery or force became necessary.

'Had the jury not been sure of your guilt upon the evidence, the reputation of each woman within her community would have been utterly and irrevocably destroyed.'